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Circular of the Public School Department of the Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Fair

Circular of the Public School Department of the Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Fair

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To the Superintendents, Teachers and Pupils of the Public Schools of Wisconsin and the North-
West: - '■ ■■
A great Fair is to be opened in Milwaukee on June 23th, 1865, förthë purpose of procuring means to establish, a perma-
ent Home for disabled soldiers. Persons of all ages and classes will feel it to be a sacred privilege to give some special
token of gratitude and sympathy to the noble men who have perilled their lives for our country, and are returning from the
war so disabled as to be unfit for the ordinary employments of life. - : >v ;; :
To these men is due a debt of gratitude which can never be discharged. . Ąs thoy return to us maimed and shattered, the
heart of every child in our schools will throb with tender and grateful.emotion in their behalf, and it seems eminently
fitting that provisions should be made in the Soldiers'Home Fair for the children to present their offerings to the disabled
defenders of our country's-flag. ■ . ......:
For this.purpose a Public School Department will be opened in the Fair, and the Executive Committee has appointed the
undersigned as a special committee to take charge of that department.
The following plan of organization and action is adopted.
ORGANIZATION.
1st. Each County and City Superintendent will act as chairman of a County or City Committee to be appointed by
himself.
2d. Towns, villages, school districts and schools wishing to contribute may correspond with the Chairman of the Committee for their own County or City. ■'■':'■
3d. Chairmen of County and City Committees may correspond with K. C. Spencer, Milwaukee Chairman of the General
Committee.
PLAN OF ACTION.
Teachers and Superintendents may adopt such means as will seem best to them in accomplishing the objetes of the Public
School Department of the Fair. The following suggestions as to
WAYS AND MEANS.
Are respectfully offered: I
1st. Children's Bank op the Wisconsin Sołdiebs' Home.—Certificates of stock will be issued to children at Ten Cents
per share. These funds are to be used in the purchase of bricks, and each share will represent twenty bricks in the building.
This will give every shareholder a permanent interest in the "Home" The attention of teachers is especially called to
this plan.
In large schools, competing joint stock companies, having appropriate names, with President, Cashier and other officers,
may be formed as a means of interesting and stimulating the children. Adjoining school districts might adopt a similar
plan in competing with one another. Teachers can obtain blank certificates of stock from their County or City Superintendent, and County and City Superintendents can obtain them from Wm. PlanMnton, Treasurer of the Committee, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, who has sole charge of this scheme. If more convenient, teachers may obtain certificates of Stock on the Soldiers'
Home Bank, directly from the undersigned Treasurer.
2d. School Exhibitions, Tableaux and Concerts may bo given, and Mito Societies and Sewing Circles formed to raise
funds, and produce articles for the Fair.

Circular of the Public School Department of the Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Fair; solicits participation by school children in a fair to raise money for a disabled veterans' home

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Pamphlets

Source

Rare Book Collection

Source Type

pamphlet

Place of Publication

Milwaukee

Source Creation Date

1865

Source Publisher

Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Fair. Public School Dept.

Publisher-Electronic

Wisconsin Historical Society

Publication Date-Electronic

2011

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Circular of the Public School Department of the Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Fair

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Circular of the Public School Department of the Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Fair

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1

Source

Rare Book Collection

Source Type

pamphlet

Publisher-Electronic

Wisconsin Historical Society

Publication Date-Electronic

2011

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CIECITLAE
OP TOE
public school depaktment
OF THE
nscQHsm SOLD
m 9
-::liW HiMfi If AIR.
£> .Gå
%&e; Såæif my/SâJ.
To the Superintendents, Teachers and Pupils of the Public Schools of Wisconsin and the North-
West: - '■ ■■
A great Fair is to be opened in Milwaukee on June 23th, 1865, förthë purpose of procuring means to establish, a perma-
ent Home for disabled soldiers. Persons of all ages and classes will feel it to be a sacred privilege to give some special
token of gratitude and sympathy to the noble men who have perilled their lives for our country, and are returning from the
war so disabled as to be unfit for the ordinary employments of life. - : >v ;; :
To these men is due a debt of gratitude which can never be discharged. . Ąs thoy return to us maimed and shattered, the
heart of every child in our schools will throb with tender and grateful.emotion in their behalf, and it seems eminently
fitting that provisions should be made in the Soldiers'Home Fair for the children to present their offerings to the disabled
defenders of our country's-flag. ■ . ......:
For this.purpose a Public School Department will be opened in the Fair, and the Executive Committee has appointed the
undersigned as a special committee to take charge of that department.
The following plan of organization and action is adopted.
ORGANIZATION.
1st. Each County and City Superintendent will act as chairman of a County or City Committee to be appointed by
himself.
2d. Towns, villages, school districts and schools wishing to contribute may correspond with the Chairman of the Committee for their own County or City. ■'■':'■
3d. Chairmen of County and City Committees may correspond with K. C. Spencer, Milwaukee Chairman of the General
Committee.
PLAN OF ACTION.
Teachers and Superintendents may adopt such means as will seem best to them in accomplishing the objetes of the Public
School Department of the Fair. The following suggestions as to
WAYS AND MEANS.
Are respectfully offered: I
1st. Children's Bank op the Wisconsin Sołdiebs' Home.—Certificates of stock will be issued to children at Ten Cents
per share. These funds are to be used in the purchase of bricks, and each share will represent twenty bricks in the building.
This will give every shareholder a permanent interest in the "Home" The attention of teachers is especially called to
this plan.
In large schools, competing joint stock companies, having appropriate names, with President, Cashier and other officers,
may be formed as a means of interesting and stimulating the children. Adjoining school districts might adopt a similar
plan in competing with one another. Teachers can obtain blank certificates of stock from their County or City Superintendent, and County and City Superintendents can obtain them from Wm. PlanMnton, Treasurer of the Committee, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, who has sole charge of this scheme. If more convenient, teachers may obtain certificates of Stock on the Soldiers'
Home Bank, directly from the undersigned Treasurer.
2d. School Exhibitions, Tableaux and Concerts may bo given, and Mito Societies and Sewing Circles formed to raise
funds, and produce articles for the Fair.